Lesson Plans for Nov 21 -Nov 22, '05


AMERICAN HISTORY

Monday


Content

Chapter 5: Inventors, Big Business, Labor

1.Handout on Pennsylvania's contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

Students will read handout, then highlight or underline important points from handout, ex: time line for inventions, important people,dates to note.

Objectives

The students will: 1). Read hand out on Pa. Contributions to the Industrial Revolution. 2).Underline or highlight important people and significant events.


Procedures

Read handout, highlight or underline people and dates.


Read handout
Materials: hand out on Pa. Industrial Revolution Contributions.

Homework:NA.


Remember to write a journal entry

Tuesday


Content

Using handout from Monday, and Atlas, locate towns and regions in Pa. which were important to the Industial Revolution,and complete the map.

Objectives

The students will:1). Continue to work on handout, questions, and map.

Procedures: Continue from Monday with Atlas, map, and questions.

Materals: Hand out on Pa. Contributions to Industrial Revolution, map, Atlas', questions.

Read pages:NA.

Homework:NA

Remember to write a journal entry

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Project:

Tests

Test are given on the dates decreed by the administration. Tests are usually scantron type tests. That is, Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, and/or Short Answer.
All "make up" tests are essay type. Make up day is, in class on Friday, unless other arrangements are made. All tests MUST be made up NO LATER than 2 weeks prior to the end of the grading period.

Notebooks

Notebooks are required for this class and must be brought to class every day. A grade is given each 9 weeks for the notebook. Be sure yours is up-to-date and all work is in it. Notebook checks are unannounced, so be sure you have yours with you EACH day for class. No locker visits are permitted to go get it.

Homework

LATE HOMEWORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. If you are legally absent from school, for each day of school that you miss, you will have that same number of days to make up homework. For example, if you are absent from school for 3 days, homework must be turned in NO LATER than 3 days AFTER the due date.

All homework MUST have a heading: your first name and your last name, the name of the class, and period, and the date.

This is the heading:

YOUR NAME

PA-4 (your class period)

Date

PENNSYLVANIA STANDARDS FOR UNITED STATES HISTORY


Standards which correspond to lesson plans are indicated by a *

8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development


8.1.12

12th Grade


A. Evaluate Chronological Thinking


*1. Sequential order of historical narrative
*2. Continuity and change
*3. Context for events

B. Synthesize and Evaluate Historical Sources


*1. Literal meaning of historical passages
*2. Data in historical and contemporary maps, graphs, and tables
*3. Different historical perspectives
4. Data presented in maps, graphs, and tables
*5. Visual data presented in historical evidence

C. Evaluate Historical Interpretation of Events


*1. Impact of opinions on the perception of facts
*2. Issues and problems in the past
*3. Multiple points of view
*4. Illustrations in historical stories and sources
*5. Connections between causes and results
*6. Author or source of historical narratives' points of view
7. Central issue

D. Synthesize Historical Research


*1. Historical event (time and place)
*2. Facts, folklore, and fiction
*3. Historical questions
*4. Primary sources
*5. Secondary sources
6. Conclusions
(e.g.,History Day projects, mock trials, speeches)

*7. Credibility of evidence
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8.3 UNITED STATES HISTORY


8.3.12

12th Grade


A. Identify and evaluate the political and cultural contributions of individuals and goups to United States history from 1890 to present


*1. Political leaders
(e.g., Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt)

*2. Military leaders
(e.g., John Persing, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower)

*3. Cultural and commercial leaders
(e.g., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Langston Hughes, Alan Greenspan)

*4. Innovators and Reformers
(e.g., Wilbur and Orville Wright, John L. Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King)

B. Identify and Evaluate Primary Documents, Material Artifacts, and Historic Sites Important in United States History from 1890 to present


1. Documents
2. 20th Century Writings and Communications
(e.g.,Coolidge's "The Business of America is Business," King's, "I Have a Dream," Armstrong's, "One Small Step for Man")

3. Historic Places
(e.g., Ellis Island, Pearl Harbor, Los Alamos)

C. Evaluate How Continuity and Change have Influenced United States History from 1890 to present


*1. Belief systems and religions
(e.g., 20th Century Movements, religions of recent immigrants)

*2. Commerce and industry
(e.g., corporations, conglomerates, multinational corporations)

*3. Innovations
(e.g., the Tin Lizzie, radio, WWW)

*4. Politics
(e.g., New Deal legislation, Brown vs Topeka, isolationist/non isolationist debate)

5. Settlement patterns
(e.g., suburbs, large urban centers, decline of city population)

*6. Social organization
(e.g., compulsory school laws, court decisions expanding individual rights, technological impact)

*7. Transportation and Trade
(e.g., expansion and decline of railroads, increased mobility, Internet)

8. Women's Movement
(e.g., right to vote, women in the war effort, Women's Peace Party)

D. Identify and Evaluate Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and organizatiuons in United States History from 1890 to present


*1. Domestic instability
(e.g., Great Depression, assassination of political and social leaders, terrorist threats)

*2. Ethnic and racial relations
(e.g., internment camps for Japanese-Americans, Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott, land tensions with Native Americans)

3. Labor relations
(e.g., rise and decline of industrial unions, free trade agreements, imports impact on domestic employment)

4. Immigration and Migration
(e.g., anti-immigrant attitudes, quota laws, westward and southward migration)

*5. Military conflicts (e.g., World War I, World War II, War on Terrorism)

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